A senior US State Department official has pointed to the alarming rate at which Russia’s military was able to “reconstitute” itself after the opening stages of the NATO-sponsored proxy war in Ukraine, fatally undermining Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin’s hopes that the Ukrainian crisis would permanently “weaken” Russia militarily.
Ukrainian military Main Intelligence Directorate Chief Kyrylo Budanov’s wife Marianna has been hospitalized and diagnosed with “poisoning by heavy metals.” What’s known about the suspected poisoning incident? Who are the Budanovs? What’s the broader backdrop to the story? Sputnik has the details.